Gardening enthusiasts, kids and community members came out to spend an afternoon among 15-foot sunflowers and ripening tomatoes at the Community Gardens, Demonstration Garden and Display and Idea Gardens on Sunday.

The Master Gardener Association of Tippecanoe County’s annual open house had people milling around and taking hayrides around the gardens. Tomato tasting let people sample each of the demonstration garden’s 12 varieties of tomatoes.

Norma Hackney, a master gardener, helped run the tasting.

“Everything we raise goes to food pantries,” she said. With their donations split among three pantries, they donate thousands of pounds worth of produce.

The Idea Gardens, specialty gardens that showed how people with a handicap can garden, were open for the public to enjoy.

“People can come down here, and if they don’t know what a gourd looks like when it’s growing, they can come down and take a look,” Linda Cooper, a master gardener, said.

While the idea gardens are tended by master gardeners almost exclusively, community members can have a community garden, Cooper said.

“We’re absolutely thrilled when people come down and look at our gardens,” she said.